Conservative Governments: National Household Survey

National Household Survey: Ottawas move to replace the mandatory long-form census which one in five Canadians was required to fill out every five years with the voluntary National Household Survey which one in three Canadians was asked to fill out back in 2011 has already proved costly, according to The Chronicle Herald. So the upfront costs were higher. There are potential inefficiencies when governments base decisions, that will be paid for with taxpayers money, on less accurate data. Finally, and especially for those municipalities shut out of NHS findings for their local areas, theres the additional costs those governments will incur when and if, as you d reasonably expect, they re forced to expend extra effort to gather sufficient information to ensure they re making decisions based on solid evidence, not guesswork and Taxpayers paid millions in extra costs and no doubt will be paying many millions more for years to come thanks to the federal Conservative governments breathtakingly dumb decision in 2010 to fix what wasnt broken with the national long-form census. The NHS cost an extra $22 million, resulted in 200,000 more Canadians answering intrusive questions than did so with the 2006 long-form census, but produced results so inferior that 1,100 smaller municipalities across the country including almost half in Saskatchewan that have relied on census data to guide decision-making have been told NHS data for their communities is too unreliable to release. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.